chastenern.
/ˈtʃeɪs(ə)nə/ One who or that which chastens.
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society > authority > punishment > [noun] > one who punishes > corrective
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1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Avj A solemne Censor, and chastner Of euery younge mans sinne.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxxviii. 109 Before the Chastener humbly let me bow.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ii. 95 As a wholesome chastener to the pride of success.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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